Have you got the mandatory eye test coming up for your drivers license renewal?
Play some action based video games or two hours a day the month before and your score will be better on that eye chart test.
University of Rochester recently did a study with the students involving eye sight. A group of students were divided up into control groups and given a crowding test. The crowding test asked the students in each group the orientation of the letter T on a page full of other distracting symbols and letters. Their response times were then record for later comparison. One of the test groups was given Tetris to play for a month and the other group was given Unreal Tournament.
After a month of near daily gaming, about 30 hours worth, the two groups were given another crowding test. The Tetris players showed no improvement in their crowding test results but the Unreal Tournament players could discern the orientation of the T more easily.
They have come to the conclusion that fast paced action video games push our visual system to the limit, the brain adapts and creates new pathways to process visual information.
To further advance their study, the University of Rochester is currently making a 360 degree virtual reality computer gaming lab. Their findings will appear in next weeks Psychological Science journal.
University of Rochester recently did a study with the students involving eye sight. A group of students were divided up into control groups and given a crowding test. The crowding test asked the students in each group the orientation of the letter T on a page full of other distracting symbols and letters. Their response times were then record for later comparison. One of the test groups was given Tetris to play for a month and the other group was given Unreal Tournament.
After a month of near daily gaming, about 30 hours worth, the two groups were given another crowding test. The Tetris players showed no improvement in their crowding test results but the Unreal Tournament players could discern the orientation of the T more easily.
They have come to the conclusion that fast paced action video games push our visual system to the limit, the brain adapts and creates new pathways to process visual information.
To further advance their study, the University of Rochester is currently making a 360 degree virtual reality computer gaming lab. Their findings will appear in next weeks Psychological Science journal.
